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'" ~ ;@ w Z W ..J U > U --_""_ l,""__ -""' .~ _ ; - . 'W ile the-C~t's ~Awiiy the Squids wili Play h Buzz Buzzelli was t he winner of t he Open GP event aboard a 350 (Yamaha, a t COu rse" Photos hy Dave Schoon maker, Shawn an d Tom Cul p , an d Art F rie d ma n O NT ARI O, CA L. , Mar . 4, 19 73 - Mos t every o ne w ho Day to n a, so ch anc e to wa s t he an y one was at cl u b racers h ad a race at a re al club race --. with ou t th e su pe r-shoes baggin g all the t rophies. Probably the mos t spec tac ular rides o f tb e d ay wa s put o ut by T erry Stanar t wh o lead th e ligh tw eight (200cc and under ) GP even t o n his Anza Cycl es Kaw asaki 10 0 un til he ra n o u t of gas . When T er ry stop pe d for gas , Rud y Reynosa o n a 20 0 and Mike Slaughter Al thou gh he is ridin g a 350 single, Wh itney Blakeslee (35 ) contests the 250 class because that is wh at he wi ll have to do in A MA races. Engine trouble put him out today and No rman Fraijo 161 was th e w inner. . on a 125 go t p ast foll o wed by a batch o f o th er guys . Terry man aged to ge t go ing aga in and wo rked his way up t o th ird ove rall b ehi nd th e two larger bikes. Beh ind him w as th e 2 0 0 of Gerhard t Klemm an d a wh o le mess of 125's. The fir st 5 0 w as Norm Schmid t 's. A fter it was all o ver, so me yo-yo wan te d t o d isqualif y Stanart be cau se he h a d gass e d u p w i th ou t a fire ex tinguisher! Fo rtun atel y, the idea was eve nt ua lly sho uted d own . Ano th er b um me r that is developin g is the amoun t of modifica ti on (an d m on ey ) tha t is req ui red to ma ke a mach ine co mpetitive in producti on classes . It is ruining the idea of p ro du ctio n racing fo r many . It is gelling damn near as ex pensive as GP raci ng. T he bumme r was co mpounde d fo r a gro up o f com p e ti tors wh o were go ing to pro test o ne of the class winners o nly t o fin d th at the protest fe e was $50. A m igh t st iff wh en y ou co nsi de r th at th e protested .rider d oesn ' t ge t any of it if th e p ro test if fo und to b e in valid . Bob Crossman ( Yam) won th e cro wde d 350 produc tion event after he fought. h is way to the front . J im Corder o also had t o make hi s way to the front to win th e O pen Prod uction even t from Q uen tin Hogan. Both were o n Kawasaki 750's. Not far beh in d was the Honda 5 00 o f Tom Casey n ot giving away a bit in horsepower. A hea t cras h th at came as he wa s preparin g 10 take the overall lead so me w h at dampened the ardo r o f .Ch arles Gul yash (back after a lay-o ff o f so me months whil e in Hawaii), an d he mo t ored his Kawasaki 500 aro un d in con sp icu ou sly to tak e a placing we ll down o n the ros te r. . Ed Un ini's 175 beat all th e 20 0' s wh ich were h eaded by D on Unger's Bridgest on e. T he large 125 class wa s ta ken away fro m Mike Baed er by J onas Minton . Buz z Buzzelli st uc k his Yamaha 35 0 in fro n t of the Open GP . even t an d w asn 't loosen ed from hi s lead ing positi o n b y an y of the efforts of Mark Miller who was second 35 0. The fir st Open class bi ke was Dennis Pegelow's almost stock Kaw asaki 750 wh ich filled . th ird spo t whil e Mik e Sl au ghter picked up t he 5 0 0 clas s in fourth. Pegelow was last seen co n tem p la t ing h ow he was go ing to ge t ho me afte r he d iscovered th a t som ebody had lift ed h is walle t while he was racin g. Pegelow also has t he d ist in ction o f bein g one of th e few peop le who wants to race enough t o m arry his sp onsor. No rm Fraijo was the win ner of th e 250 GP eve nt ove r Bob Hartley . As usual all the leaders were on Yam ah as . T he sid ecar race was shor t lived. One of the h ack s b roke and all the side hack guys are so close that all the other rigs sto p ped t o help th e brok en on e. The officials go t ti re d o f wai ting fo r th em t o co me aro und and ga,ve up. Kawasaki R and 0 dude Bryo n Farnsworth came ou t to play on a 9 00 and 250 . Maybe he want ed to pract ice rid ing t~e bank s in case he got to go t o Daytona or something. Jim Cordero was Open Prod uctio n w inner after he w restled the lead fr om Quentin H ogan. - During t he 2 5 0 Product io n rac e. t hree r id ers i nt erm ing le. AFM ROAD RACE O n ta rio Mo to r Speed w a y Onta rio , C ali f . ~toC~R~b9 7 3 Bo b Rob ert s L a rr y x coc W a ld emark ar py 2 0 0 P R OD D onald U nge r R ich icocn eoar Duane Gome z 175 PR O D Ed Unin i 12 5 PR O D Jonas Minton M ike Bae de r Bell Ca lla wa y 350 PR OD B o b C r ossm a n Sco tt C lo ugh Ro d Muru1as 500 PR OD Tom C asey F ed W a lti Jim La pine O PEN P R D D Jim Cordero Quenti n H oga n Butch La n dg ut h 5 0 GP Norm Sc h m idt B ill Lorker Ed L awson 12 5 G P Mike Sal u ght er Terry St ana rt C hu ck S m a ll 175 G P Tom Harman 200 GP R udy R eynosa Gera ld K le mn 250 GP N orm Fraijo Bob Hartley Se if ri ed Richard 350 G P B uzz B uzz e ll i M a rk M iller Bob H a rtl ey 500 O P EN G P Mi ke Slaughter Chris L apat asky John Salemi O PEN G P Denn is Pege to w John Li p p is Ben 5 uz S ri Yam Yam Yam H on H on Kaw , K aw Kaw H on Yam Kaw Kaw Yam Yam Yam Yam Yam Yam Yam Kaw Hon Kaw Kaw . B5A